Marta Spreafico is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Economics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan and an Associate Member, Cambridge Centre of Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK. She undertook her PhD (‘Doctor Europaeus’) in Economic Policy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan and it was entitled Institutions and Growth: The Experience of the Former Soviet Union Economies. Her research interests include the economics of inequality and an invited paper (with JSL McCombie) was presented at the 2015 annual conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking in Paris. Recent publications include “Kaldor’s Technical Progress Function and the Verdoorn Law” (with JSL McCombie) Cambridge Journal of Economics, (2015).